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Definition of Moderns
1. modern [n] - See also: modern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moderns
Literary usage of Moderns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"THE ANCIENTS AND moderns. FREQUENT and violent disputes have arisen on the subject
of the preference to be giren to the an. ients, or the moderns The ..."
2. Manual of Political Ethics by Francis Lieber (1838)
"Protection of the Individual, first object of the moderns ; the Existence of the
State, ... Hence high Importance of Judicial Forms with the moderns. ..."
3. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"COMPARATIVE SKILL OF THE ANCIENTS AND moderns IN MECHANICS. ... The moderns
possess powers which were unknown to the ancients, as the screw, ..."
4. The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"But to treat this matter plainly, and without a figure ; it is most certainly
owing to the bashfulness of the moderns that their works are not held in ..."
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